Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs223] Staff Solution Invalid Pointer Error
Date: Tuesday, 07 Apr 2020, 07:48:22

    > Message Posted By: Unknown
    >
    > While testing for edge cases I noticed that the staff solution for Qsort
    > returns an error when given -POS,[LEN] with no file as follows:
    > munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer
    > Aborted (core dumped)
    >
    > When provided with just -POS and no file, it returns:
    > free(): invalid pointer
    > Aborted (core dumped)

Good catch.  Thanks for pointing this out.
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    > On the other hand, it appears that Qsort.V0 does not return errors and
    > simply exits when provided no file as instructed in the spec. Should our
    > program follow Qsort or Qsort.V0 in this case?

It should follow Qsort.V0.

--Stan-